Science

Two brothers from the wealthy and powerful Medici family died of malaria and were not poisoned as a rumor had…

The first dinosaur found in Antarctica belonged to a group that included the largest animals ever to walk the planet,…

Life on Earth could continue for another 1.8 billion years, according to new research. This figure, which is based on…

Researchers have proposed creating a novel satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could shield Earth from the worst effects of solar…

Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste ‪—‬ the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of…

The patient: A man in his 20s in Edinburgh, U.K.The symptoms: The man visited an eye clinic after noticing floaters…

Trees in China that were planted as part of huge reforestation projects appear to grow faster than those in natural…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, has entered a planned four-year shutdown that…

Two lumps of potato discovered in a roughly 500-year-old Inca storage room in Peru are a rare find: freeze-dried potatoes…

A breakthrough in photonic chips could make large, costly, ultrafast lasers dramatically smaller, leading to portable and affordable imaging, diagnostic…